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Marthe De Vogüé
Marthe de Vogüé, Marquise de Mac Mahon (21 November 1860 - 9 June 1923) was a French political activist and monarchist. She was the leader of the "Dames Royalistes" from the 1900s until her death and was a prominent figure of the Action Française movement. Early and personal life Marthe Marie-Thérèse de Vogüé was born in Paris on 21 November 1860, the second daughter of cousins Marguerite and Melchior de Vogüé. Her father was a diplomat, ambassador, archaeologist and prominent agrarian, president of the traditional and conservative :fr:Société des agriculteurs de France, Société des agriculteurs de France. Her mother died only days after her birth, and her father remarried in 1866 to Béatrix Claire Marie des Monstiers-Mérinville and had four further children, his second wife also dying as a result of childbirth. On 22 June 1881, Marthe de Vogüé married Charles-Marie de Mac Mahon, (1856–1894) a retired military officer and a member of the senior branch of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
